Yeah, it’s pretty disappointing. I worked for a consulting firm and it was doing the same thing for clients, and internally.
There is the perception that paying continually for your own specialists is a waste of money and you’d be better off just paying consultants when they are needed. It always ends up costing more money and/or the organization loses all internal knowledge of how their things work and they even have to pay more consultants to sort that out.
I love public transit and it’s the same exact problem. Instead of having our own team of transit specialists, that knows how to plan, and build this, we just pay for consultants at every stage of the project. It ends up costing way more, and we repeat the same thing for the next multi billion project a few years later. So every new project is a huge undertaking costing millions in consulting, and that’s why we don’t continually develop public transit. We have to start anew every time. It’s so horrible. Yet, that’s apparently how we “save” money.
They “hate that idea” because almost every time those external consultants end up taking longer and costing way more than using internal resources.
Yeah, it’s pretty disappointing. I worked for a consulting firm and it was doing the same thing for clients, and internally.
There is the perception that paying continually for your own specialists is a waste of money and you’d be better off just paying consultants when they are needed. It always ends up costing more money and/or the organization loses all internal knowledge of how their things work and they even have to pay more consultants to sort that out.
I love public transit and it’s the same exact problem. Instead of having our own team of transit specialists, that knows how to plan, and build this, we just pay for consultants at every stage of the project. It ends up costing way more, and we repeat the same thing for the next multi billion project a few years later. So every new project is a huge undertaking costing millions in consulting, and that’s why we don’t continually develop public transit. We have to start anew every time. It’s so horrible. Yet, that’s apparently how we “save” money.